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PICTORIA'LVSTORY-BLOCKSI SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 257,103, dated April 25, 1882,

application filed March 13. 1852. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WAL'rna Srannnnus, of New York, in the county andState of New York,have invente'danew and useful Improve- 5 meat inPictorial Story-Blocks, of which the following is a specifiGation.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are face views of my improvedtoy story-blocks, showing them ranged to produce different pictures.Fig. 11 is a cross-sectional the blocks.

' The object of this invention is to produce for the instruction oramusement of children and others blocks or slabs the faces 'of whichshall contain illustrations and inscriptions that will, when properlyranged with reference to one another, produce a series of differentpictures and the descriptions or text pertaining there to. In otherwords, each of the series of blocks can be turned successively, or incertain prescribed order, to produce different series of pictures inconnection with the other blocks; but it is not desired to turn them allat once. The scene in which the different pictures are produced is toremain substantially the same at all times. Thus .in the drawings theblocks A, B, O, D, E, and F, which are four-sided prisms, are, whenplaced side by side, as in Fig. 1, in proper order, printed or paintedon the exposed sides 11'!) so as to show the illustration of a room; andthis room is to be the scene, so to say, for the production of anillustration of the poem known as Old Mother Hubbard. By turning theblocks 13 and E from the position shown in Fig. 1 to that shown in Fig.2 the illustration for the first verse of said poem is obtained-namely,the picture of Old Mother Hubbard, who has eutered through the door a,and the picture of the dog on the block E, and in connection with thischange of scenery from what appears in Fig. 1 is also exposed on theblocks B and E the explanatory legend, to wit:

Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone. Whenshe got there The cupboard was bare,

And so the poor dog had none.

For the next verse the blocksB and E have both to be turned back intothe position in which they were in Fig. 1, and the blocks A and D arenow turned so as to produce in the original scene the picture shown inFig. 3, which is illustrative of the second verse of said poem ordoggerel; and then to produce the illustration for the third verse theblocks A and D are again turned back to show the representation on theface of Fig. 1, and the blocks 0 and F are turned to produce the pictureof the woman and the dog, as is necessary for the third verse, all asshown in Fig. 4.

For the fourth verse the illustration shown in Fig. 5 is used, the block0 being again broughtback to show its portion of the original scene, andthe blocks A and F are turned so as to expose the required illustrationand legend, as shown in Fig. '5. Then for the next verse the blocks Aand F are again turned back to the original scene, and the middleblocks, 0 and l), are turned to show the picture'ot' the woman, the cat,and the dog, as in Fig. 6. Fig. 7 shows that'for the next verse .theblocks B and E are turned to change the original scene of Fig. 1. Fig. 8shows that for the seventh verse the blocks 0 and D are turned'to changethe original scene. Forthe eighth verse, which is illustrated in Fig. 9,the blocks B and. E are turned to change the original scene, and forthelast verse the blocks A and F are turned as shown in Fig. 10. Inother words, the transformation is obtained in this fashion: Each of theblocks A B O D E F has each of its sides of the prism painted or coveredwith a'ditferent picture, the faces 0 b b of all the blocks, when rangedin front, as in Figs. 1 and 11, producing the foundationscenc, and intothis foundation-scene the several pictures can be brought by turning theblocks in the order required, always, however,

taking care that for a new transformation the blocks are first broughtback to the original scene, so as to expose the faces b b b. To makethis clear we find, for example, that in Fig. 2 the blocks B and E havebeen so turned as to expose their faces 01, while all the other blocksexpose their faces b. (See Fig. 11.) In Fig. 3 the blocks A and D areturned to expose their faces (I, while all the other'blocks expose theirfaces I). In Fig. 4 the blocks 0 and F expose their faces (I, while allthe other blocks expose their faces I). In Fig. 5 the face e of theblock A and the face e of the block Fare exposed,

to produce ten ditferent pictures, each picture i l containing sixfaces. Sixty faces are practiwhile all the other blocks show their facesI). l caliyproduced out of the twenty-four.

In Fig. 6 the faces 2 of the blocks 0 and 1) are It is clear that theinvention is applicable to exposed, while all the other blocks showtheir 1 blocks illustrated with different pictures and faces 1/. In Fig.7 the faces c of the blocks B l legends, or either, and thatit is notnecessary and E are exposed, while all the other blocks 5 that theblocks should have the exact size and show their faces 1;. In Fig. 8 thefaces f of form shown, orothat the number of the blocks the blocks 0 andl) are exposed, while all the should be six. Any other number willanswer. other blocks show their faces I). In Fig. 9 the l I claimfaces fof the blocks B and E are exposed, The pictorial story blocks or slabsA, B, C, while all the other blocks show their faces b; j &c., having ontheir faces I) illustrations of a and in Fig. 10 the facesfof thehlocksA and l a scene, and on their other faces illustrations Fareexposed, while all the other blocks show adapted to enter into the scenefor succestheir faces Z). .sive display in said scene, substantially asde- Thus we have used in these ten illustrations scribed.

all the faces of the several blocks, there being altogetherin thisexampletwenty-fourfaces on the six blocks, out of which I have been ableWALTER STRAXDERS. Witnesses:

JttLit's HUELSEN, Jr, WiLLIAit H. C. SMITH.

